Trick-card.



G. W. WALTER.

TRICK CARD.

APPLIoATIoN FILED sEPT.25,1911.

1,061,576. Patented May13,1913.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE W. WALTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO EDGAR G. WALTHALL, OF

NEW YORK, N. Y.

TRICK-CARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 13,1913.

Application filed September 25, 1911. Serial No. 651,182.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE W. IVM/ran, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trick-Cards, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to playing cards or trick cards with which a person can perform slight of hand tricks for the amusement and mystification of others.

The object of the invention is to provide a playing card which can be caused to change from a card of one suit to a similar card of a different suit in a mysterious manner, while in the full view of the spectators, and without any apparent manipulation. To this end, I have provided a playing card of ordinary appearance having marked in a dark shade thereon usual symbols, a portion of the card adjacent to said symbol being cut away, the cut away portion and the dark portion together outlining a second dierent symbol. Under this cut away part I provide a slidable card having a dark portion and a light portion. When the light portion is moved into register with the cut-away part, the cut away part takes on the light shade of the ground of the playing card and the original symbol marked on the playing card appears; while if the dark portion be placed under the cutaway part. the cut away part takes the color of thc original symbol and being added thereto forms the second symbol. At a short distance the eut away portion'cannot be seen.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates by way of example, a card em'- bodying my invention, Figure 1 is a face view of the trick card; Fig. 2 is an inside view of the back card forming part of the trick card; Fig. 3 is a front view of the slidable card; Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal sectional view of the trick card', and, Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view of the same.

Referring more lparticularly to the drawing, the trick car is shown comprising a face card 1 and a back card 2, held spaced from the face card by a narrow rectangularly arranged strip or strips of cardboard 3 or the like glued or otherwise suitably secured to the edges of' the face card and the back card, thus forming a small rectangular closed space between said cards. In this space is placed a card or screen 4 winch is shorter than said space and is therefore adapted to slide toward or from either end of said space.

To the back face of the sliding card 4 is secu'red a button 5 having a shank G projecting through a slot 7 in the back card 2. By holding the trick card face forward, between the thumb and the index iinger, the shank 6 may be easily engaged by the first finger and the sliding card moved either up or down.

The button may be held in place by means of a wafer 8 glued to the back face of the sliding card and over the base of the button. Any suitable means may be secured in lieu of this button.

'lhe front face of the face card has marked thereon symbols 9 indicating the denomination of the card. For convenience I have selected clubs. The clubs are marked on in the ordinary way. Adjacent to the clubs I have formed openings 10 of such a shape that these openings when added to the club, give the outline of spades. However if the sliding card t is in the position shown by the dotted lines of Fig. 1, the material immediately under the openings 10 will be the white parts 12 of the sliding card and the white exposed lower parts 13 of the back card 2. These white parts thus placed under the openings 10 will, at a short distance, appeal' to be homogeneous with, and a part of,the white ground of the face card 1. and the symbols on the face card will be clubs. f

On the other hand, if the sliding card 4 be moved. to the position shown in Fig. 4, the dark parts 14 of the sliding card and the dark part 15 at the upper part of the back card 2 will appear under the openings 10, and said openings will appear the same color as, and a part of, the clubs thus forming spades.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim is new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A trick card comprising a face card bearing a symbol and having an opening near said symbol and a back card having different shades thereon. said cards being movable one relative to the other.

2. A trick card comprising a face card bearing a symbol and having openings adjacent to said symbol forming with said symbol the outline of a dierent symbol, and a sliding card having a part of the same shade as said first named symbol and apart the same shade as the ground of the face card, either of whichparts are adapted to be placed in register with said openings.

3. A trick card comprising a face card having clubs marked thereon and openings vadjacent to the clubs and forming with the clubs the outline of spades, a sliding. card having Mportions thereon the same shade as the clubs, and other portions thereon the same shade as the ground of the face card, either of said portions being adapted to be, placed in register with saidopenings.

4. A trick card comprising a vface card having clubs marked thereon and having openings adjacent to the clubs and forming therewlth the outlines of spades, a back card secured at its edges to the edges of said face card, and a sliding card between the face card and the back card and having dark parts and light parts either of which is adapted to the place in register with the openings, said back card being provided- Y with, at its upper part, a dark portion and at its lower part with a light portion adapted to register. with the openings at the upper and lower ends of the face card respectively, said upper and lower parts being adapted to be covered or uncovered by thev adapted to be placed in register with certain of said openings, the upper part of the back card being provided with-a dark portion and the lower part vof the back card being provided with a light portion yadjacentrespectively to certain of said openings, said .upper part and said lower part being adapted to be covered or uncovered by the respective endsof said sliding card.

GEORGE W. WALTER.

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